What I actually use cycles from my desk to getting used to the laundry and then back to the desk. Everything else just stays hidden unused in the closet.
I once read a description for a book about a girl from mars who I think was around 12 & somehow got to London in a hot air balloon but it took place in the past not future, I’m looking for a book to read & want to read this one, just can’t find it anywhere.
Read a book in the mid 2000s about a group that was persecuted, Christians I believe,that accidentally discovered ftl travel. They built a ship and left earth. They discovered a new planet, filled with new plant and wildlife. They were still persued even after leaving earth.
I would like to revi...
I have noticed the recurring expression "I will kill you where you stand".
The first is Worf in Star Trek: First Contact:
We also have Te'alc in Stargate SG-1:
And in Black Panther:
And finally ...
@Stormblessed The problem with this is that three of the four tags used state that they should be used in conjunction with an additional tag. But you can only have 5 tags, so that is an impossibility.
I think both of those stories are based on the theory that a consciousness is a future of another counciousness if it has the memories of the other counciousness. In Prestige, Angier keeps cloning himself and having the clone die in order to perform a magic trick where he teleports. At the end, t...
I was hoping someone here might be able to help me identify an anime I've been searching for on and off for the last few years. I've tried searching the internet and various anime websites with the descriptions I can recall about the show but to no avail unfortunately.
I probably watched the ani...
In the end of the epic scene fighting with Ultron robots run and fly away from Hulk like they have emotions and fear. Their goal is to get to the drill, isn't it? Why did they behave like people?
At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Gellert Grindelwald is overpowered by Newt Scamander and taken to prison. Why does he still posses the Elder Wand?
Is there an in-universe explanation as to why characters in Star Trek are often excessively specific when speaking?
For example, why refer to a "sonic shower", when they are the standard type of shower on board Voyager and normally such unnecessary detail would be quickly dropped. In real life w...
I was wondering about this after I realised that Dr. Isaacs in Resident Evil wants to wipe out humanity again and then restart it with a chosen few so life stands a better chance.
Dr. Isaacs: I propose that we end the world... But on our terms. An orchestrated apocalypse. One that would clean...
Yeah, I hope so as well. Because I haven't posted answers in a long time until yesterday. So today I was surprised to see that I somehow crossed 2500 before coming back down. The help center says that people sometimes go through a single person's answers, and if those upvotes are cast in a short period of time, it gets reversed.
Aye the system will auto reverse a large number of votes, either way, cast in a short period of time. I think the mods have some tools for tracking down suspicious voting over a more spread out time frame but I wouldn't know details or want to give them if I did!
@TheLethalCarrot There's a magic gerbil. But he's very sensitive, so the first rule regarding the magic gerbil is - you don't talk about the magic gerbil.
Then you also have the question of even though some most fan fic is low quality there are some quite liked ones... at least one even has its own tag on the site hp-methods-of-rationality
So would you blanket ban all fan fic or only the low quality ones? If so how would you define low quality?
While we have a long-standing policy that it's OK to ask about adult topics here - everything from sex to rape to bestiality - there have also been quite a number of questions in recent years which have stirred up controversy and disagreement within the community as to how they should be handled....
@TheLethalCarrot Indeed, that was my calculation. But as per Jenayah's objection, it should be 111 tagged with all three, and 19 of them without harry-potter.
I've only seen the first from Math today but I haven't been in chat too much recently. That said I didn't actually see much wrong in that particular message that warranted the flag
Fun experiment: flag messages that have flaggy keywords but were not actually problematic. See if the 10,000 Reputationers do enough work to know that the flags should be invalid, or just automatically mark them as valid. But the experiment would probably have negative consequences, so probably not a good idea after all.
I hear ya. (By the way, not all the actions I ask about are things that I actually want to do. Most of the time I am just probing the theoretical behavioral limits for the sake of theory.)
Whoever just flagged Jenayah's post please note that flags are for seriously offensive posts not criticisms of the SE search facilities. Please don't cheapen the flag system by mis-using it.
I always wondered why they didn't simply use the same algorithm they use when you type in the title when asking your question. That seems to work significantly better for some reason.
Well, search generally works more restricted/deterministic, you type in some word and get exactly those. While the title algorithm seems more elaborate/enigmatic. But still, the duplicate search algorithm could use more prominence without requiring you to ask a pseudo-question, since it tends to work quite well.
And it's pearls before the pigs, since I can't imagine a new user to look at that list remotely attentively. While avid users on the other hand aren't going to pretend asking a question to get it.
I mean sure some of them are best staying with SE search but at that point you're probably looking for something very specific anyway so you're very unlikely to get a tonne of results back
Hmm, I probably rarely ever use the word search anyway, unless it's about a single word.
I tend to go by tag first and on my site that often means I can quickly scan the ~30 results manually anyway. On a site with 5,000 Harry Potter questions that can get more difficult.
The novel Inferno written by Dan Brown isn't a science fiction or fantasy novel.
So how can anyone ask question about this novel in the Science fiction & Fantasy site?
Why was the ending reversed in the movie "Inferno"
I haven't looked into the Trivia policy properly yet to know exactly what falls under it except the obvious cases for it so didn't want to state as such confidently
I have spent next to no effort looking into it. I think I've read the answers to the mod election question about it and the close reason wording but beyond that nothing
I understand the intent of the policy but not the specifics
I believe I read this short story in a collection.
A man's wife goes to a consultant to improve his career.
The consultant says include your middle initial (I think)
Story goes though the effects this has, in the end averting a war. The end has an alien boasting his minor change had a class 4 eff...
Should we allow questions that are intended for trivia?
e.g:
Who played _ in __ movie / tv ?
How many seasons did _ have?
Who produced __ show?
What was that movie that had __ (person) in it?
Well, it's a quite feely "you know it when you see it" issue. It comes with experience. And voters still get it wrong sometimes. But that's how sites work. ;-)
Yes, even when saying how users can be wrong, or how users saying they're wrong can be wrong. Figuring out who's right is the true magic of moderation. ;-)
In the classic Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life", six-year-old Anthony Fremont (played by child star Billy Mumy) has the power to wish for anything. He often gets angry at other people, punishing them by sending them to "the cornfield". The other people in his town fear him, and do what ...
I get that Cersei hated those religious extremists who made her parade naked in the city, but what was the point of blowing out the entire Sept? It killed lots of innocents (surrounding buildings also got destroyed). The Great Sept of Baelor building also had historic significance. And if she did...
This earlier question about a seemingly trivial change preventing a nuclear war made me remember a short story I read more than 20 years ago.
In the story, there are 2 intelligences (it is not clear if they have any physical form) that are able to randomly access time. They take turns making a ...
@Donald.McLean I also recommend the live orchestra version of - wait for it - the Formula One theme song they created this year. Not a 20-seconds jingle thingy before the broadcast, an actual theme tune they air on the track and everything. It's really good :) (well, they did get Brian Tyler to compose t. Guy's not exactly a newbie)
You gotta give it to the powers that be of Formula One, they did an absolutely amazing job at improving communication these last two years. Providing high quality replays when they used to shut every. damn. video. posted., compilations, behind-the-scenes and stuff.
@Stormblessed ah. Well that's where it gets problematic. You can't, in all fairness, forbid fanfic-id for one single work, and allow it for all the rest.
No matter how awful HP fanfics are, and how well-thought and maestro-written the others are (which they're... not)
Coz as I addressed in my last question, Was the Evil Queen in Snow White and Shrek the Third a Princess in her youth?, evil queens are princesses who were never saved. And no one came and saved her in that world, so she became bitter.
I was doing a stationary bike at the gym the other day and they had a virtual ride of the streets of Paris. I was enjoying that when an Alizee song came on, and I was thinking "I should get more music in French"
@RDFozz I like pretty much the entire "American Pie" album. I saw him perform in concert. The guy at the "will call" desk thought it was funny.
I've also seen Weird Al do his version in concert.
In Season 1 Episode 11 Heliopolis SG-1 travels to a planet where we first learn of the alliance for 4 races, and discover that Ernest Littlefield had survived his trip through the gate in 1945, and had been living alone until they arrived, some 50+ years later. The wiki page for Heliopolis states...
@Jenayah I have three Dropkick Murphy's songs on my iPod. I also have three songs in French, but am hoping to expand that, not the least of which to help me practice.
In the first book the main character joined the Marines and is making his first combat jump onto a planet. No fighting between the main factions happens in our solar system or Alpha Centauri due to the fact that the Earth was almost destroyed. Humans have colonies on planets throughout the galaxy...
There's another one I vaguely remember with the chorus being "Oh jolie Christine ... Mon heroine et ma morphine", but I can't find those lyrics online.
Winter Bash 2018 is over now, and no one has opened this recurring question for the next round, so I'll just do it.
Please post your suggestions regarding how to make Winter Bash 2019 even more fun than the previous Winter Bashes.
New suggestions for hats and hat triggers (either regular or se...
You wrote: it's best to at least have a description and basic guidance than absolutely nothing. In that case it should be better rather than best because you are comparing two things. I.e. something can be better than something else, but it can't be best than something else.
Less important, you wrote: an useful tag, which technically should be a useful tag since the word begins with a consonant sound even though the first letter is a vowel.
@Alex I saw the best vs. better item, and edited for that - I changed "balanced and fair hat" to "well-balanced hat" (not a necessary edit, but not generally harmful; and blaanced and fair is close to Fox News' old "motto", "Fair and balanced")
@Jenayah Mentioned so you can revert if necessary, and to show @Alex he wasn't being creative enough :-)
Does anyone have a screenshot (or know where I can find one) showing what page you are taken to after you sign up for an account on Meta after being redirected from the "Ask Question" button? I'd prefer not to have to create a new account just to find out.
This is probably Isaac Asimov's "Spell My Name with an "S"".
The story concerns Marshall Zebatinsky, a Polish-American nuclear physicist. He is concerned that his career has stalled, and in desperation consults a numerologist for advice on restarting it. The numerologist advises him to change...
^ Argh I'm slow again. That was my guess from the question title.
Hmm. This hat suggestion reminds me of someone's posting a huge number of bounties on our site just before WB 2018 started. (Was it @Skooba ?). Wonder if there's any connection between the two things....
Going forward bounties from deleted accounts will be moved to (owned) by Community and will be awarded at the end of the period as they normally would (e.g. when the bounty starter doesn't award and 7 days is up).
While we can't fix history here, it will be more correct/fair in the future, esp...
I've been working with software development for nearly 3 years, but always in small companies with 6 employees at most. In Dec 2018, I started to work in a big company and I'm still feeling completely lost.
When I started, no one told me about who was my manager or what project I'll working on....
It always surprises me when I hear/read about people who don't have much to do at work. If you have 5 employees working 20% of the time you (theoretically) only need 1 employee working 100% of the time.
In Order of the Phoenix the Ministry passes Educational Decree 23 which gives Umbridge the following responsibility:
‘The Inquisitor will have powers to inspect her fellow educators and
make sure that they are coming up to scratch.
Presumably Umbridge ended up inspecting every teacher...
This has to do with the workload of Hogwarts teachers.
Subquestion: How many hours does a teacher of the core subjects (DADA, Transfig, Charms, Potions) teach a week?
If this question has already been answered, a link would be very helpful!
In my estimate however, Umbridge hardly has any free...
@Alex Of course, the Potterverse does actually have at least one answer for this (checks) and, I see Rand'alThor mentions that answer (and JKR -maths one) in comments.
@Jenayah So I would assume, but they could perform some sort of asexual reproduction. Plus didn't want to bring up parents - perhaps @Niffler is an orphan.
Swamp Thing is a science fiction, action/adventure television series based on the DC Comics character Swamp Thing. It debuted on USA Network on July 27, 1990, and lasted three seasons for a total of 72 episodes. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel.
== Overview ==
Developed for television by Joseph Stefano (known for the classic movie Psycho and legendary series The Outer Limits), Swamp Thing was filmed in the brand-new Universal Studios Florida facilities and soundstages by Universal's MTE division. This was granted to demonstrate the new studio because the series could be produced...
It was linked in the comments under the one question in that tag :)